Jones Advances Anti-Poverty Efforts
Names Dr. Thad Williamson to city post as director of Office of Community Wealth Building Mayor Dwight C. Jones today announced that Dr. Thad Williamson will serve as the central point of contact for the new Mayor’s Office of Community Wealth Building. The new office is a recommendation that grew out of the work of the Mayor’s Anti-Poverty Commission, now known as the Maggie L. Walker Initiative for Expanding Opportunity and Fighting Poverty. Mayor Jones established the Anti-Poverty Commission in 2011 to begin to lay the framework for de-concentrating poverty and transforming Richmond’s public housing. The Commission identified policy priorities, including: - Workforce development - Targeted economic development - Development of a regional transportation network - Targeted investments in education to improve school system outcomes, and - Achieving the redevelopment of our public housing communities to provide better neighborhoods “I’m so